Totally agree. -----Original Message----- From: "Bob Keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: 5/13/2007 9:59 AM Subject: Re: Keynote Reality Distortion
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 16:38:13 +0100 > From: Daniel Stenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Keynote Reality Distortion > To: "REALbasic NUG <[email protected]>" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I think third party add-ons tend to be look for in-house IT work. > But for > shrink wrapped commercial stuff many software houses avoid 3rd pty > stuff > like the plague. Why ? Because you now have to deal with two or > more support > teams instead of just one, and your dependency on others to deliver > bugfixes > grows. You basically lose control over how well YOU can support YOUR > product. I'm sure you have a point in this but that's not ALWAYS the case. I work on a very successful commercial VB6 accounting application and we have a ton of 3rd party tools in it (grids mainly). The only problems we ever have from them is dll installation issues and I suspect that you'd have that problem from ANY windows application. Our solution to the problem of support is paying the extra money to get the source code or having it in escrow. In 10 years of doing this my client has used the source code ZERO times because of company closure/failure. I think the problem is perception. People think RB is a toy programming language because of <insert reason here>. In reality, it's pretty much the only solution that lets you write apps that work on all platforms NATIVELY. That's pretty powerful in my book. If you don't need the cross platform then go use xCode, or VB.net or whatever is guaranteed to give you the native performance on your platform of choice. In other words, use the right tool for the job YOU have. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
